Modelling terrain with spot heights rather than contours

[AlexP]

Ive been given a landscape plan, but there are no contours only few spot heights dotted around.
Anyone have any tips as to how best model the terrain in this situation?

I experimented with drawing my own contours in to follow the points but doesnt really work.

[alexyork]

I think that recent plugin SplineLand might work with heights? Not sure. Interested to hear if there are other solutions for this.

[jamesf73]

have had the same kinda thing before. have drawn lines betwen the logical points, set all the points to bezier or smooth once it's completed and then done a surface modifier on all of the combined shapes - guess could just drag the points of a plane or similar around too. It worked fine, but it can be time consuming if it is a large area with a lot of points.

[Rens]

Meshlab could work if there are enough points, it's a bit tricky to work with, but gave me some very nice results on point cloud data so far.

[AlexP]

I think that recent plugin SplineLand might work with heights? Not sure. Interested to hear if there are other solutions for this.

Never heard of this, but yeah there is a video on their site using Splineland for exactly this. Essentially drawing a small line for each point and placing at the right height.

I think Populate:Terrain should also work using this method

[AlexP]

Populate: Terrain worked ok. Ive only done a part of it, but used manually placed little circles at the right heights. Bit of relax on top. Still... so long winded.

[DPS]

Do you have access to Autocad?

You could try this plugin:

http://www.glamsen.se/CadTools.htm

'Triangulate objects'

[paolo242]

nice... thanks...

[glorybound]

I used something ages ago that worked with points. I think it was called a TIN plan, or something. I have the CD in a drawer, in the office, so I can look tomorrow.